The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter

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Winner of a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize - Includes Pale Horse, Pale Rider set during the flu epidemic of 1918 From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her award-winning short fiction, including Pale Horse, Pale Rider, where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war, and Noon Wine, a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas , Pale Horse, Pale Rider , and The Leaning Tower, as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form.